weirdscience

Your tele experience will be an asset to you. The biggest transition I experienced (and have witnessed other med/surg to critical care RN's undergo) is the shift of priorities from a task orientation to an acuity and systems orientation. You really have to set aside that task-y mindset and think through what is the most pressing need your patient(s) have, plus why you are doing what you're doing, what could go wrong, and what you plan to do if it does go wrong.

We use a 10 ml per hour backer at minimum, unless the gtt is running at 10 or greater.

We use the CHG wipes, and are also starting to move away from calling them a "bath."

OP, I work full time nights and have gotten straight A's taking 1-2 courses at a time. I have 4 classes left, including Capstone. I have taken two of the "dreaded" ones (Assessment and Management) already, and am in the process of taking the third (Research.) As I said, I have not found the program difficult to achieve good grades in, just annoyingly time-consuming for not a lot of new knowledge acquired. All of my general coursework transferred without issue, but I did not have coursework from another state. YMMV. But they will do a transcript eval for you prior to admission--I think you just have to pay the ~$50ish application fee. So you'll know what you are getting into.

Time-consuming but easy.

I think you'll be fine. This is normal. At least for some of us girls. ;-)

I got the impression that the statement came from her self-report to the hospital's event reporting system, which does not go into the chart. Not sure how the press got ahold of it, though.

I worked a better paying job throughout NS. I learned the CNA stuff hands-on my first year as a RN (we went over some of it, very generally, in a prerequisite for NS but there was very little hands-on training, so it didn't really stick.) In retrospect, it sucked sometimes to feel like I was behind on the basics...but making $11 or $12/hour would have sucked more.

Michelle Collins is no peach, either. She's the one who initially brought up the monologue in a derogatory way, but Behar is getting most of the heat.

Also, if you click on "Visitor Posts" on the View's Facebook page, there are many more scathing comments.

They're not going to live this one down quietly. Their Facebook page is exploding. I thought it was refreshing to see her monologue about her talent. Not everyone plays an instrument or does ballet. I was really proud of Miss Colorado.

Totally agree. I'm an ICU nurse also, and I can't imagine expecting the ED nurse to have done a 1900 glucose check at 1850 whilst transporting said patient. That's pretty ridiculous.

Not a dumb question, not everyone uses different colored pens. Some do it to organize their brain sheet (seen a lot in ICU, different tasks get different colors or things get checked off with another color) and some who are still using paper charting need a red pen to chart check orders.

I hate Frozen! Lego Movie for the win!

I have two superstitions: one is about moon phases and night shift, the other is having money in my pocket on New Years. Otherwise, I'm a very logical and rational person.